MmirtiCAHOK.—A youngster perusing a chapter of Genesis, turned to Lis mother and inquired if people in those days used to do sums on the ground. He had been reading the passage: “ And the seas of men multiplied upon the face of the earth.” Dkawing the Long Bow.—“I say, mister, did you see a dog come along here that looked as if he were a year, or a year and a-half, or two years old?” said s Yankee to a countryman, at the roadside. “Yes,” said the countryman, thinking himself quite quizzed. “ lie passed about an hour, or an hour and a-half, or two hours a*-o; and is now a mile, or a mile and a-half, or two miles ahead; and he a-hal i,or two inck-g long.” “That’ll do” SBkl the Yankee, - >
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 546, 6 February 1868, Page 2
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